Biology (M.Sc.)
From the big picture to the microscopic, set your sights on understanding the natural world around you.
Overview
With a wide range of options, you can direct your ideal career path and choose to study any living thing, from humans to viruses.
Biology studies the science of life. This includes all organisms from the microscopic to whole communities of plants and animals.
Available to both full-time and part-time students, the program is a combination of thesis and course work.
Work to solve important issues in your area of interest, such as disease management and research, natural resource management and conservation, public health, animal care, impacts of pollution on the environment and organisms.
Key Features
Career Opportunities
Environmental consulting companies, federal and provincial ministries, graduate studies, mining companies, nongovernmental conservation agencies, biomedical field, chiropractic, dentistry, physiotherapy, human and veterinary medicine, naturopathy, teaching, wildlife, fish, habitat, park management, conservation.
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Program DetailsFaculty Members
Core faculty members
: Invertebrate systematics
: Environmental microbiology; ecosystem ecology; soils
: Restoration ecology; wetlands
: Obesity and metabolic disease
: Fisheries ecology and management
: Evolutionary ecology; herpetology
: Ecology and conservation of reptiles at risk
: Wildlife management & behavioural & biomedical ecology
: Animal physiology in changing environments
: Human and plant genetics
: Behavioural ecology of Mustelids
: Ecology of wetland plants; root ecology; heavy metal stress
: Molecular biophysics; bacterial environmental interactions
: Applied evolutionary ecology
Cross-appointed faculty
Belzile, Nelson
(NOSM)
: Molecular and cellular control of cell survival
Johnson, Julia
: Signal transduction and regulation of angiogenesis
: Molecular signalling pathways
: Breast cancer indicators; natural cancer control products
: DNA replication in etiology of cancer
: Cellular and molecular neural and muscular systems
Le, Hoang-Thanh
(NOSM)
McElhaney, Janet
: Genomics and bioinformatics (Drosophila and environmental)
Moise, Alexander (NOSM)
Mykytczuk, Nadia: Environmental microbiology
: Bacteriophage biology, therapeutics and diagnostics
: Lipid-based drug and vaccine delivery systems
: Tumour biology
: Lake food webs
: Nervous system disorders; brain disease
Roy-Leveillée (Pascale School of Northern Development)
Simard, Alain (NOSM)
: Gene dysregulation; hypertension
Tharmalingam, Sujeenthar (NOSM)
Thome, Christopher (NOSM)
Yang, Guangdong
Adjunct faculty
Bhavsar, Satyendra
Bowman, Jeff: Spatial population ecology
Bräuer, Suzanna
Brown, Glen: Animal ecology, wildlife conservation and management
Buckner, Carly
Dotta, Blake
Echaubard, Pierre
Edwards, Brie
Edwards, Darryl
Hamr, Josef
James, April
Jones, Trevor
: Effects of multiple stressors on northern aquatic ecosystems
Khidas, Kamal
Kim, Nam-Soo
Mandrak, Nicholas
Mastromonaco, Gabriela: Developmental biology; reproductive biotechnology
Pitcher, Trevor
Popp, Jesse
Renshaw, Gillian
Riley, Julia